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November 25, 2009 at 3:49 pm

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Famous Quotes

Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

Even pleasure itself is a toil.
~Author : Manilius Nice Quotes

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.
~Author : Jerry Coleman Great Sayings

To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of ‘for’ and ‘against’ into one organic unity which is without distinctions.
~Author : Bruce Lee Meaningful Sayings

From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place – full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America – full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.
~Author : Louis Adamic Popular Sayings

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
~Author : Francis J Braceland O Magazine April 2003 Wise Quotes

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
~Author : Mark Twain Witty Sayings

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
~Author : Voltaire Motivational Sayings

The best love affairs are those we never had.
~Author : Norman Lindsay Famous Quotes

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Sayings

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
~Author : Charles Darwin Nice Quotes

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October 19, 2009 at 5:35 pm

A room without books is like a body without a soul
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with

Only little boys and old men sneer at love

Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much

Every man has his price

Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops

Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers

We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference

It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one

To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause

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August 31, 2009 at 4:01 pm

It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.
~Author : A L Prusick Famous Quotes

There is no place in nature for extinction.
~Author : Licretius Inspirational Sayings

Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.
~Author : Alexander Hamilton P 217 A History of the American People by P Johnson Nice Quotes

This book fills a much-needed gap.
~Author : Moses Hadas Great Sayings

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Meaningful Sayings

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
~Author : Thomas H Huxley Wise Quotes

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
~Author : Edward M Kennedy Motivational Sayings

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we’ll find it.
~Author : Sam Levenson Famous Quotes

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
~Author : Robin Williams Inspirational Sayings

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August 30, 2009 at 4:52 pm

Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.
~Author : Danish proverb Famous Quotes

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
~Author : George Eliot Middlemarch Book I ch1 Inspirational Sayings

The world is my lobster.
~Author : Henry J Tillman Nice Quotes

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
~Author : August Hare Great Sayings

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
~Author : Zeno from Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers Meaningful Sayings

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
~Author : Havelock Ellis Wise Quotes

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man’s look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
~Author : William Hazlitt Motivational Sayings

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
~Author : Dorothy Parker Famous Quotes

A poem is no place for an idea.
~Author : Edgar Watson Howe Country Town Sayings 1911 Inspirational Sayings

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August 27, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical.
~Author : Yogi Berra Famous Quotes

I was going to buy a copy of “The Power of Positive Thinking”, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
~Author : Ronnie Shakes Inspirational Sayings

If you’re in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it’ll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they’re thinking, you can throw a real grenade.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Nice Quotes

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
~Author : Ecclesiasticus Great Sayings

I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there.
~Author : John Flansburgh Meaningful Sayings

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
~Author : Thomas Szasz The Second Sin 1973 Science and Scientism Wise Quotes

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Motivational Sayings

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another–no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
~Author : Friedrich Engels preface to Kark Marx The Civil War in France 1891 Famous Quotes

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
~Author : Brendan Francis Inspirational Sayings

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August 22, 2009 at 5:33 pm

Every nation ridicules other nations — and all are right.
~Author : Arthur Schopenhauer Famous Quotes

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Inspirational Sayings

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
~Author : Plato The Republic Nice Quotes

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
~Author : Mel Brooks Great Sayings

A book holds a house of gold.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
(Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)
~Author : William Occam Wise Quotes

It’s better to be known by six people for something you’re proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you’re not.
~Author : Albert Brooks Motivational Sayings

I bet when they weren’t fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.
~Author : Max Frisch Inspirational Sayings

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August 13, 2009 at 9:29 am

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
~Author : George Santayana Winds of Doctrine 1913 ch 4 Famous Quotes

The world must be made safe for democracy.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson April 2 1917 Inspirational Sayings

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
~Author : Zig Ziglar Nice Quotes

To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~Author : Buddha Great Sayings

When salvation is viewed as man’s program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God’s program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.
~Author : Michael Horton Meaningful Sayings

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
~Author : Bill Watterson Wise Quotes

No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time.
~Author : Arthur Schlesinger Jr Playboy Interview May 1966 Motivational Sayings

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.
~Author : Prince Philip of England Famous Quotes

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
~Author : Aristotle Inspirational Sayings

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August 13, 2009 at 9:28 am

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
~Author : Hubert Humphrey Famous Quotes

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
~Author : James Gordon Inspirational Sayings

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn’t happen in the end.
~Author : James Barrett Scotty Reston Nice Quotes

Principal Any attempt to cheat, especially with my wife, who is a dirty, dirty, tramp, and I am just gonna snap.
~Author : Billy Madison Great Sayings

Imitation is suicide.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
~Author : Irving Wallace Wise Quotes

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope — an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
~Author : John Fowles The Magus Motivational Sayings

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
~Author : Jose Ortega y Gasset Inspirational Sayings

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August 13, 2009 at 9:27 am

Our children change us?whether they live or not.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar 1991 Famous Quotes

It’s important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don’t on the whole… The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.
~Author : Richard Ingrams Inspirational Sayings

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.
~Author : Paul Fussell Nice Quotes

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
~Author : Albert Einstein Great Sayings

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Meaningful Sayings

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Wise Quotes

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness — it means more to me than my life itself.
~Author : Marquis de Sade Motivational Sayings

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~Author : Leonardo DaVinci Notebooks c 1500 Famous Quotes

The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.
~Author : L Thomas Holdcroft Inspirational Sayings

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August 11, 2009 at 10:20 am

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
~Author : Joseph Addison Cato Famous Quotes

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
~Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton Inspirational Sayings

Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
~Author : John Stuart Mill On Liberty Nice Quotes

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
~Author : Thomas Babington Great Sayings

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Meaningful Sayings

There comes a time in every man’s life and I’ve had many of them.
~Author : Casey Stengel Wise Quotes

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
~Author : Leo Tolstoy Motivational Sayings

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
~Author : Saint Bernard Epistle Famous Quotes

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Sayings

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